Ann J. Lane

Scholars such as Ann J. Lane have argued that although CPG was twice married her true, unacknowledged sexual orientation was lesbian. On the other hand neither Judith A. Allen nor Cynthia J. Davis

She became and remained particularly close to Martha Luther , with whom she attained her first deep personal happiness. She wrote to Luther in 1881 to demand: why in the name of heaven have...

Philosophers Jane Martin and Evelyn Fox Keller have critiqued this book's lack of intense feeling, something that perhaps reflects CPG 's desire to dissociate women from emotionalism. Ann J. Lane noted that Herland constitutes CPG

Biographer Ann J. Lane asserts that, despite the obvious flaws in CPG 's work, her legacy is both rich and unquestionable: Lane maintains that Gilman set out to forge a new world-view, a social philosophy...